Robert "Bob" Kirkland was a character who appeared for the first time in Red Dawn. His final appearance was in Red Listed. He was one of the seven final people on Jane's List of Suspects to be Red John, being the second to be eliminated. He was a friend of FBI's Californian chief Alexa Shultz, and in Behind The Red Curtain, kills Jason Lennon. Bob's brother, Michael, was an accomplice of Red John and is believed to be dead. He is killed by Reede Smith at the end of Red Listed, thus confirming that he was not Red John.